Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly old skinflint who hates everyone, especially children, but at Christmas three ghosts come to visi... Read More

After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his dau... Read More

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. Wit... Read More

Considered one of Dickens's greatest works, "Bleak House" scathingly portrays his belief: "The one great princip... Read More

"Great Expectations" is at once a superbly constructed novel of spellbinding mastery and a profound examination of mo... Read More

A terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decaying ... Read More

David Copperfield is sent away to boarding school by his cruel stepfather, against the wishes of his loving mother. His horrify... Read More

Oliver Twist discovers early in life that it is a terrible thing to be born an orphan. His miserable experiences at the workhou... Read More

When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstre... Read More

The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when ... Read More